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    September 17, 2006
    For immediate release
    Anahid Yeremian
    P.O. Box 655, Menlo Park, CA 94026
    <mailto:[email protected]>anahi [email protected]
    650 - 926 - 4444

    UN, NASA, European Space Agency Endorse Cosmic Ray Division's SEVAN Network

    In November 12005, UN, NASA, and the European Space Agency (ESA)
    jointly organized a multinational meeting to promote international
    cooperation in space research. A particular interest of the consortium
    is to study energetic events on the sun and the effects of these
    events on the Earth's environment. Prof. Ashot Chilingarian, head
    of the Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) represented Armenia and proposed
    a multinational Space Environment Viewing and Analysis Network
    (SEVAN). The proposal received very high marks and was one of the few
    programs endorsed by the consortium for the International Heliophysical
    Year 2007 (IHY-07).

    The Cosmic Ray Division is among the world's top 5 research
    organizations in cosmic ray physics and space weather research. SEVAN,
    a nine-country space weather network of ground based cosmic ray
    particle detectors, will be led by the CRD physicists in Armenia
    under the leadership of Professor Chilingarian. The network will
    utilize advanced concepts, technology, data acquisition methods,
    and computer analysis techniques developed at the CRD.

    SEVAN will open windows to enhanced understanding of solar phenomena
    that affect the earth and will promote international cooperation.

    At a July 2006 meeting of the international Committee on Space
    Research (COSPAR) in Beijing, Prof. Chilingarian represented Armenia
    and promoted the SEVAN network. His reports were received with great
    and tangible enthusiasm. Nat Gopalswamy of NASA and the international
    coordinator IHY-07 mentioned SEVAN in his own presentation as one of
    the most important projects of IHY-07. Meanwhile, the chairman of the
    IHY-07 steering committee, Joseph Davila stated, "Space Weather issues
    are becoming more and more important and the approach advocated by
    CRD to deploy new type of particle detectors in near-equator countries
    is very important".

    At home, CRD continues to attract smart and energetic students from
    Yerevan State University. Artur Reimers, a third year PhD student
    at the CRD won a $5000 grant from the Graduate Research Support
    Program organized by Armenia's National Foundation for Science and
    Advanced Technology (NFSAT) and the Civilian Research Defense Fund
    (CRDF) in the US. Tigran Karapetyan and Bagrat Mailyan are the two
    new graduate students and Armen Hovhannisyan is a new upper class
    undergraduate student from the Yerevan State University. All three
    talented students have chosen to focus their studies on cosmic ray
    physics at the Cosmic Ray Division and we are grateful to Mary Anna
    Brown for supporting them with tuition and books.

    Thanks also to the many Diaspora members for your continued support
    of the CRD, this vital organization for Armenia's strength and secure
    future. We want to thank also several important organizations for
    their continued support in various ways to facilitate/supplement
    the Diaspora giving: Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America
    national headquarters, Michigan, and Greater Metropolitan DC chapters;
    United Armenian Fund; Nor Serount Cultural Organization; the Armenian
    Heritage Cruise; and the National Foundation for Science and Advanced
    Technology. Together we make a winning team!

    For more information please visit
    <http://www.crdfriends.org/>www.crdfri ends.org or write to the Support
    Committee for Armenia's Cosmic Ray Division at SCACRD, P.O. Box 655,
    Menlo Park, CA 94026.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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